tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post413266670454412378..comments2018-02-21T19:27:40.676-06:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Should We Torture Babies?Steve Kellmeyernoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-34402382455108007642017-07-08T11:14:49.930-05:002017-07-08T11:14:49.930-05:00&quot;Overall, it looks like an effort to argue fo...&quot;Overall, it looks like an effort to argue for the sake of arguing.&quot;<br /><br />Yes, and probably an occasion for him to do some of that &quot;virtue signaling&quot; he has decried in those with whom he disagrees.Confiteborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951083063448447552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-65578256741557766382017-07-08T11:12:32.596-05:002017-07-08T11:12:32.596-05:00Thanks for sharing your unsolicited and unneeded o...Thanks for sharing your unsolicited and unneeded opinion on this matter which is none of your business. No doubt Charlie Gard&#39;s parents will give it all due consideration.Confiteborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951083063448447552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-58864571967700120892017-07-01T22:22:04.609-05:002017-07-01T22:22:04.609-05:00So, if parents have God-given, absolute authority,...So, if parents have God-given, absolute authority, they can rape, torture and kill their own children, and no one can stop them, right?<br /><br />Oh, wait.... no.... I bet that isn&#39;t right.<br /><br />In fact, I bet the government has the right, even the duty, to step in and stop parents who mis-treat or abuse their own kids.<br /><br />And if you agree, even a little bit, that government has the right to stop parents abusing their kids, then we&#39;re arguing about where the line is where government is required to step in and stop the parents from abusing their kids.<br /><br />In this case, even the American doctor who pioneered the nucleoside therapy has said it is &quot;reasonable&quot; to turn off life support and let the child die a natural death. He has admitted that he&#39;s just going to play around with this kid for six months before he lets the kid die. The kid is a thing, a toy, to him.<br /><br />So, yeah, that&#39;s no good.Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-73833177738797857562017-07-01T21:53:24.025-05:002017-07-01T21:53:24.025-05:00I think you kind of missed the point. Parents have...I think you kind of missed the point. Parents have the God-given authority over their children - not the government. In this case, the parents were stripped of their parental rights because the government and the socialist health care system disagreed with them. That&#39;s wrong. And frankly, God bless those parents for not giving up on their kid. Good parents try to give their kids the best opportunity to grow and thrive - that&#39;s what these parents were trying to do.Elena LaVictoirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18108910015959872763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-28427654468330114932017-07-01T13:26:17.567-05:002017-07-01T13:26:17.567-05:00Could you explain how this is &quot;forced death&q...Could you explain how this is &quot;forced death&quot;, given that even the doctor who invented the nucleoside treatment has admitted that Charlie Gard is in terminal stage? EVERY doctor says Charlie will soon be dead - even the guy who wants to test out his meds knows it won&#39;t work.<br /><br />People die.<br />Children die.<br />Our tech is not good enough to stop death.<br />It just isn&#39;t. Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-39117408052318694792017-07-01T11:13:10.130-05:002017-07-01T11:13:10.130-05:00Stephen Hawkings comes to mind...he seems in no hu...Stephen Hawkings comes to mind...he seems in no hurry to discount medical hope for himself. Most folks &#39;peering in from the outside&#39; would say his condition &#39;appears to themselves&#39;, hopeless. obviously he thinks the opposite. Finding ways to off humanity this 2017, seems to be making great strides toward justifying euthanasia and forced death. Parents grief can be used to a greater good with hope or equally coerced to choose an easy death to the perceived problem. America has been destroying itself by abortion, well over fifty million... with as many misguided intentions and reasons to justify the genocide. Euthanasia is also very real, happening everyday now, with just as many self serving reasons...mostly $$$.Lona Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01581817891831267367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-21149925385344294392017-06-30T23:53:07.590-05:002017-06-30T23:53:07.590-05:00The writer assumes there are no effective means to...The writer assumes there are no effective means to limit discomfort during such a treatment. Overall, it looks like an effort to argue for the sake of arguing. Jim Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14595352596533167315noreply@blogger.com